The 1926 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona as an independent during the 1926 college football season. In their 12th season under head coach Pop McKale, the Wildcats compiled a 5–1–1 record, shut out four of seven opponents, and outscored all opponents, 143 to 18. The team captain was Robert E. Crouch.[1]

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Arizona Wildcats football
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The Arizona Wildcats football program represents University of Arizona in the sport of American college football. Arizona competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Arizona officially began competing in intercollegiate football in 1889. The Wildcats joined the Pac-10 Conference in 1978 as one of the members of the conference. Arizona has won six championships, along with first ever divisional championship. The Wildcats have made thirty-eight post season bowl appearances, Arizonas home stadium is Arizona Stadium, which opened in 1939 and becomes Arizonas fifth largest city on gamedays with a capacity of 87,451. Arizonas archrival is in-state foe Arizona State Sun Devils, the Wildcats and Sun Devils meet annually in the Territorial Cup, one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports. The Wildcats are currently led by head coach Rich Rodriguez, at the completion of the 2016 season, Arizonas all-time win/loss/tie record is 601–552–33. With the recent tenure of Rich Rodriguez starting in 2012, the Wildcats have compiled a 36–29 record including 3 bowl wins, the varsity football program at the University of Arizona began in 1899, though the Wildcats nickname was not adopted until later. Stuart Forbes became the first head coach of Arizona football history, from 1900 to 1901, William W. Skinner served as head football coach at the University of Arizona. While there, he studied geology. He guided Arizona to 3–1 and 4–1 records, respectively, on November 7,1914, the team traveled to the west coast to play Occidental, then one of the reigning gridiron powers in California. Arizona later received the name Wildcats after a Los Angeles Times correspondent, Bill Henry, Pop McKale was a very successful high school coach in the Tucson area when he was hired at UA. In 1921, Drop-kicker/receiver Harold Nosey McClellan led the nation in scoring with 124 points, the Wildcats did not compete in football in 1918 due to World War I. On October 18,1926 UA quarterback and student body president John Button Salmon died from injuries sustained in a car wreck and his final words, spoken to coach Pop McKale, were, Tell them. tell the team to Bear Down. Soon thereafter, the UA student body adopted Bear Down as the schools athletic motto, on October 18,1929, Arizona opened up Arizona Stadium for college football play. They won their first game against Caltech with a score of 25–0. McKale retired after sixteen seasons at Arizona, the McKale Center, the University of Arizonas home basketball venue, was opened in 1973 and named in McKales honor. Fred Enke replaced McKale as head coach of the Wildcats and in one season as head coach, gus Farwick served as the head football coach at the University of Arizona in 1932, compiling a record of 4–5 before his resignation

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University of Arizona
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The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory, the university operates two medical schools and is affiliated with the regions only academic medical centers. The university is home to the James E. Rogers College of Law and numerous other nationally ranked graduate. During the 2015-2016 academic year, there was an enrollment of 43,088 students. The University of Arizona is governed by the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona is one of the elected members of the Association of American Universities and is the only representative from the state of Arizona to this group. Known as the Arizona Wildcats, the teams are members of the Pac-12 Conference of the NCAA. UA athletes have won titles in several sports, most notably mens basketball, baseball. The official colors of the university and its teams are UA Red. After the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, the push for a university in Arizona grew, the University of Arizona was approved by the Arizona Territorys Thieving Thirteenth Legislature in 1885, which also selected the city of Tucson to receive the appropriation to build the university. Tucson had hoped to receive the appropriation for the mental hospital. Tucson was largely disappointed with receiving what was viewed as an inferior prize. Construction of Old Main, the first building on campus, began on October 27,1887, and classes met for the first time in 1891 with 32 students in Old Main, which is still in use today. Because there were no schools in Arizona Territory, the university maintained separate preparatory classes for the first 23 years of operation. The University of Arizona offers 334 fields of study leading to bachelors, masters, doctoral, academic departments and programs are organized into colleges and schools. Currently, grades are given on a strict 4-point scale with A worth 4, B worth 3, C worth 2, D worth 1 and E worth zero points. In 2004, there were discussions with students and faculty that may lead the UA towards eventual usage of the grading system in future years. As of December 2015, the university uses the 4-points scale. The Center for World University Rankings in 2015 ranked Arizona 68th in the world, the 2015–16 Times Higher Education World University Rankings rated University of Arizona 163rd in the world and the 2016/17 QS World University Rankings ranked it 233rd

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Arizona Stadium
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Arizona Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium in Tucson, Arizona. On the campus of the University of Arizona, it is the field of the Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference. Originally constructed in 1928 to hold 7,000 spectators, the seating capacity has been expanded numerous times since. As of 2016, the stadium has a capacity of 55,675. The facility also includes various offices, including the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. Located in central Tucson, Arizona Stadium has been home to University of Arizona Wildcats football since 1928, initially, stadium capacity was 7,000, with the only seating located on the stadiums west side. Arizonas first game at the facility was October 12,1929, capacity was increased to 10,000 in 1938 when seats were constructed on the stadiums east side. 4,000 seats were added to both end zones in 1947, in 1950, a horseshoe configuration was constructed around the south end zone resulting in the addition of almost 8,700 seats. A multi-level press box and 10,000 seats were added to the west grandstand in 1965. The east side of the received a second tier, consisting of 17,000 seats, in 1976. In 1981, the team stopped using the stadium and the track was removed. Permanent seating was placed at the end zone in 1988. Following the 1988 season, a new press box with luxury sky boxes was built, the sky boxes include a 319 loge seats on the first level,23 luxury suites between the 2nd and 3rd levels, and a media level on the 4th floor. Because the stadium was in place, the sky boxes are built so that the structure is cantilevered out over the edge of the stadium seats. Prior to the 1999 season, a new scoreboard with a monitor was installed. The Copper Bowl was a bowl game based in Tucson. In January 2011, it was announced that a new 5 and it is the seventh-largest video screen in college football. In September 2009, Arizona announced plans for the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility, the project broke ground after the conclusion of the 2011 season

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Kit Carson Rifle
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The Arizona–New Mexico football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos. They have met 67 times on the football field, from 1938 to 1990, the winner of the rivalry took ownership of the Kit Carson Rifle. The gun is a Springfield Model 1866 rifle that is rumored to have belonged to the famous frontier scout. Game scores from each game are carved into the stock of the rifle

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Bear Down
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Bear Down is the official motto of the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Arizona. It is the inspiration for Bear Down, Arizona, the unofficial fight song of the schools Arizona Wildcats. The official fight song is Fight, the battle cry was created in 1926 by a popular student athlete, John Button Salmon. Salmon was the student body president, as well as the quarterback for the Wildcat football team and the catcher for the Wildcat baseball team. The day after the first game of the 1926 football season, Salmon, although Salmons friends were not injured, Salmon suffered a severe spinal cord injury. In the aftermath of the accident, football coach Pop McKale visited him in the every day. During McKales last visit, Salmons last message to his teammates was, Tell the team to bear down. John Salmon died on October 18,1926, the following year, the University of Arizona student body adopted the slogan for use with all Wildcat athletic teams. 231129°N110. 950115°W﻿ /32.231129, -110.950115. The words are featured on the roof of the gymnasium. In 1939, the Arizona state legislature issued a decree that Bear Down would be the property of The University of Arizona. I had one of our agencys law librarian check the laws to see if this was put through as a bill - no luck. I checked Memorials and Resolutions, which is probably the closest we would have to something called a decree, finally, I even checked in the Governors records to see if this was issued as a proclamation, and found nothing. Doing a bit of googling, I see that this decree is mentioned several times and my suggestion to you is that you may want to spend a bit of time searching through newspapers to see if you can find information about an event happening in 1939 recognizing the phrase. Could it have, rather than the legislature, been the Arizona Board of Regents, might it be a different kind of document altogether. Unfortunately, we do not have the staff to do kind of research. You may also want to contact the University of Arizona Special Collections to see if they can clarify this reference, in 2013 Arizonas football stadium installed a new artificial surface with Bear Down etched in the center of the field and running from end to end between the 15-yard lines. Previously the phrase was painted on the field in two separate areas, was written by Jack K. Lee, the universitys future band director, in 1952. As related by Lee himself in later years, Lee was one of applicants for the position of Director of Bands at the U of A

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Wilbur and Wilma
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Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat are the official mascots at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. In 1915, the schools first mascot, Rufus Arizona was brought to campus and he was a live desert bobcat, named for U of A president Rufus von KleinSmid. For the next fifty years, the school used live mascots, however, in 1959, Wilbur, the costumed version of the live bobcat mascots, began appearing at football games. He was extremely popular, and has stayed ever since, in 1986, Wilma Wildcat was created, and was even married to Wilbur. Originally, in honor of Arizonas Old West heritage, Wilbur wore a blue flat-topped cowboy hat, a blue vest, a cardinal bandana scarf around his neck and a holster with two pistols. Recently, Wilbur and Wilma have taken to wearing the teams athletics jerseys instead of their traditional outfits, however, the hat remains on Wilbur, and Wilma wears a cardinal-colored bow. The identities of the students portraying Wilbur and Wilma are kept confidential until the home basketball game of the season. UA Traditions from Arizona. edu About Wilbur & Wilma from the Universitys cheerleading webpage

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Sentinel Peak (Arizona)
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Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The valleys first inhabitants grew crops at the base, along the Santa Cruz River. The name Tucson is derived from the Oodham Cuk Ṣon, meaning base of the black. In the 1910s University of Arizona students used local basalt rock to construct a 160-ft-tall block A on the mountains east face, near its summit, giving the peak its other name, A Mountain. The peak is part of a 272-acre park, the largest natural park in the City of Tucson. The fertile land at the base of Sentinel Peak was used for agriculture from circa 2000 BCE until the 1930s, bedrock mortars found on the sides of the peak are believed to have been used to grind corn and mesquite beans into flour. In the 1690s the Oodham people living in the area were visited by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, after Presidio San Augustin del Tucson was constructed in 1775, sentinels were stationed on the peak to watch for raiding Apaches. Sentinel Peak is made up of layers of igneous rock representing various types of volcanic activity. Erosion and faulting are responsible for the conical shape. The layer of rock at the peak of the hill is a basaltic andesite dating to 23-24 Ma and this caps a 30-36 meter-thick layer of tuff above another layer of basaltic andesite, both dating to 26-28 Ma. Tuffs and andesite exposed at the base of the hill, on the south side, date to approximately 60 Ma. Volcanic ash and breccia, along with ancient lava beds, or lahars, can be also be found on the mountain and this Indian fortification in time became known as the sentinel station because a sentinel or guard was posted there to watch for approaching enemies, likely Apache Indians. By 1883, remains of the fortification is what existed at that point, the remains included, A circular wall, about 3 feet thick and made of boulders, enclosed an area about 8 feet in diameter. North of the structure was a small wall, roughly two feet high and about 10 feet long. To the east were traces of another, smaller circular wall, in 1925, the remains of the fortifications still existed at the top of what by then was being called A Mountain although it is unknown what exactly was left at that point. The origin of the name Sentinel Peak, according to Mr. Leighton, comes from the sentinel station, students carried the project to completion on March 4,1916, when the 70 ft wide,160 ft tall A was whitewashed on the east side of the peak. The A has traditionally been painted white, on March 23,2003, four days after the start of the Iraq War, it was painted black in protest. Two weeks later, following much debate, the Tucson City Council resolved to have the A painted red, white

Arizona Wildcats football
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The Arizona Wildcats football program represents University of Arizona in the sport of American college football. Arizona competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Arizona officially began competing in intercollegiate football in 1889. The Wildcats joined the Pac-10 Conference in 1978 as one of the m

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Coach Skinner

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Coach Woodson

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Coach Mudra

University of Arizona
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The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory, the university operates two medical schools and is affiliated with the regions only academic medical centers. The university is home to the James E. Rogers College of Law and numerou

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The Old Main, also known as the University of Arizona School of Agriculture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, ref.: #72000199.

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University of Arizona

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Old Main in 1889

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Entrance to the U of A main library

Arizona Stadium
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Arizona Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium in Tucson, Arizona. On the campus of the University of Arizona, it is the field of the Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference. Originally constructed in 1928 to hold 7,000 spectators, the seating capacity has been expanded numerous times since. As of 2016, the stadium has a capacity of 55,67

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Arizona Stadium in October 2011

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Looking west from the visiting team's section, with the press box on the left and the new video board on the right. Taken in 2011.

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Arizona Stadium, looking towards the east side and the Mirror Lab 2009

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The east side of the stadium, with the ZonaZoo section closest to the field.

Kit Carson Rifle
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The Arizona–New Mexico football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Arizona Wildcats and New Mexico Lobos. They have met 67 times on the football field, from 1938 to 1990, the winner of the rivalry took ownership of the Kit Carson Rifle. The gun is a Springfield Model 1866 rifle that is rumored to have belonged to the famous

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New Mexico Lobos

Bear Down
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Bear Down is the official motto of the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Arizona. It is the inspiration for Bear Down, Arizona, the unofficial fight song of the schools Arizona Wildcats. The official fight song is Fight, the battle cry was created in 1926 by a popular student athlete, John Button Salmon. Salmon was the student body presiden

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Bear Down Gym, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Wilbur and Wilma
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Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat are the official mascots at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. In 1915, the schools first mascot, Rufus Arizona was brought to campus and he was a live desert bobcat, named for U of A president Rufus von KleinSmid. For the next fifty years, the school used live mascots, however, in 1959, Wilbur, the costumed vers

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Wilma & Wilbur at the 100th homecoming, University of Arizona

Sentinel Peak (Arizona)
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Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The valleys first inhabitants grew crops at the base, along the Santa Cruz River. The name Tucson is derived from the Oodham Cuk Ṣon, meaning base of the black. In the 1910s University of Arizona students used local basalt rock to construct a 160-ft-tall

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The "A" on Sentinel Peak

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Dense stands of saguaros at the base of Sentinel Peak

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Sentinel Peak, standing behind a wrecked bridge along the Santa Cruz River during the flood of 1915

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"A" Mountain (right) and Tumamoc Hill (left) in the distance, looking west across the Tucson Valley